India won’t lead in deep tech with ideas alone, we need infrastructure that matches our ambition. At #NasscomFutureForge 2025, Rajesh Nambiar, Persident Nasscom and Dr. Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, CEO, Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), came together for a powerful conversation on what it will take to turn intent into sustained innovation: Spotlighting the shared aim to bridge the gap between academia, startups, and industry, moving from fragmented effort to catalytic collaboration, the two leaders also discussed that building national R&D capacity isn’t just about grants. It’s about ease, clarity, and getting capital into the hands of builders faster, whether in universities or deep tech startups. - India’s next decade of innovation needs institutions that fund, not just approve. - Public R&D investment must match private sector velocity. - Execution matters as much as vision. #DeepTechIndia #TechDeveloperConfluence nasscom deeptech Rajesh Nambiar Sangeeta Gupta Shivkumar Kalyanaraman
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2moIndia ranks 40th in the Global Innovation Index (2024) and yet its public R&D spend remains <0.7% of GDP, far below China (2.4%) and South Korea (4.8%). The issue isn’t just intent or grant speed but it’s that deep tech founders still lack national infrastructure: no shared fabs, no open-access prototyping labs, no industrial-scale validation facilities. A robotics startup in Bengaluru spends ₹2–3 crore building what Israel’s Technion or France’s CEA-Leti offer off-the-shelf. Until that changes, we’re scaling ambition on broken foundations.